Rick Ford
Rick Ford
confidence good help playing realize team win
It was just a really good win to get. It has to help our confidence and make us realize that we can be a good team if we keep playing the way we we're playing.
against bad pittsburgh playing virginia west
You can't let Pittsburgh come at you, ... You can't let Connecticut come at you. You can't let West Virginia come at you. You're not playing against bad teams.
good guys played players ready run top
We had a day off (Saturday), so our players were ready to play them, ... We played with a lot of energy. The top 10-11 guys all got a good run in and played well.
country played team
We weren't the second-best team in the country when we played Duke. We weren't.
both either proved
You feel comfortable with either of them. They both have proved they can do it.
ability effective fathom hard passing quickness talked tape team teams until watched
We watched tape of them and we talked about their quickness and ability to get in the passing lanes. Until you get out there it's hard to fathom how effective they are. They are a pesky team and they're going to be one of those teams that will always be hard to play.
aggressive open taking turned
We turned down some open shots, so we need to be aggressive. Being aggressive is taking an open shot. We're better when we run, and we haven't been aggressive enough in transition.
cost forced game impatient issue win
When it was tied, we didn't do what you have to do to win a game like this. We were impatient and we forced the issue and it cost us the game.
life overcome tough
P.J.'s a tough kid. He's overcome a lot more than that in his life.
chance forward guys ourselves played push
I thought our guys played hard. We wanted to give ourselves a chance to push forward and we did that. We just couldn't make enough stops.
bit certainly needed stops tough
That's a tough loss. We have to play just a bit better. We made the stops we needed to make tonight, and we certainly did enough defensively. We just have to play better.
design designed enthusiasm gardens houses individual less maintained quickly reveal
I see houses that are maintained to different degrees, I see gardens that are maintained to different degrees, ... One of the things that I would look for would be a design that very quickly would reveal individual enthusiasm of individual residents. ... Anything monolithic can, if it's designed well, look less monolithic.
arrived athletic beat extremely games job league marvel nights people respect spent summer teams throughout watching
Fran and I spent a lot of nights watching summer league games throughout the D.C. area. I've got a lot of respect for him. You've got to marvel at the job he's done once he arrived there. His teams are very intelligent. They're not going to beat themselves. They're going to play extremely hard. They're probably more athletic than people think.
next seen stronger work
He's got to work on his body, to get stronger for the next level, but he's terrific. He doesn't get rattled; he's seen probably every defense.